Increasing rail capacity for Mid Canterbury 
New Zealand’s railfreight carrier Kiwi Rail has signed an agreement with Fairfield Freight Hub, paving the way to increase rail volumes through Kiwi Rail’s current Ashburton rail site and creating the potential for a new container terminal and freight hub outside Ashburton.... more
Osprey: more than 600,000 hours
The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey has logged more than 600,000 flight-hours since its first flight over 30 years ago, providing continuous customer support to maintain mission readiness and transport critical cargo and personnel. Built by Bell Textron, a Textron company, and... more
Taking a big step into 2035 
Many people would appear to have forgotten that the Chinese economy remains a centrally-planned effort. The 14th five-year plan that has just been passed includes an ambitious scheme for the transport sector with a 15-year horizon. more
Viaduct near Beska completed
RZD International has laid the last link of the railway track on the viaduct in the Beska area at 51 km of the Stara Pazova - Novi Sad section of the Belgrade - Budapest line. Now this viaduct is finally complete. It intersects the Maradik - Beshka road. Its span structures,... more
New regional HQ down under
Agility's Australasia regional headquarters has moved to a new 32,000 sqm facility in Melbourne airport's business park. Qanstruct, a Melbourne-based design firm, led the construction of the facility, which took 13 months. The property covers 30,000 sqm devoted to warehousing... more
Department heads for USA and Russia
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has announced changes within its executive team: Katsumi Nagata, currently chief country representative of United States of America, will be promoted to chief executive representative of North America, Central America and Caribbean; and Kenji Yokoi,... more
Locomotives for Mongolian rail line
Progress Rail has entered into an agreement with Bodi International, an engineering, procurement and construction contractor, for the purchase of 16 locomotives. The loco type EMD SD70ACeLW will support operations on the Tavantolgoi-Gashuunsukhait railway project. The nearly... more
Flightless birds take to the skies
In another move in a longstanding partnership with New Zealand's department of conservation (DOC), which has seen Air New Zealand transport over 4,000 threatened species and conservation dogs that work to protect them around Aotearoa, the carrier recently helped fly 15 takahē... more
Chinese vaccines to the Caribbean
A new batch of vaccines developed by Chinese pharmaceutical companies Sinopharm and Sinovac was delivered from Beijing to the Dominican Republic by China Eastern Airlines on 18 March, according to the Shanghai-based airline. After 17 hours 34 minutes' flight, the vaccines... more
Coal transport now in open top containers
Russia-based Trans Container is developing its network for the transport of coal in open top containers and is launching a regular train service from Batareinaya station (Irkutsk Region) to Manzhouli station (Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China). The transit time is three... more